9-10 December 2005
Granada

In 1995 the Barcelona Declaration on Euro-Mediterranean Partnership designed a project that aimed not only at developing partnership relations between the countries of Europe and their neighbours across the Mediterranean, but also at turning the region into a zone of international stability, prosperity and all-round cooperation. Ten years later, most of the problems raised on that occasion were still open, and the difficulty in building a new project was strongly related to the new conflicts rising in the Arab world in the Mediterranean and Middle East.

The purpose of the World Political Forum’s Seminar held on December 9-10, 2005 in Granada (Spain), was to analyse this situation and to propose new political, economic and cultural mediations that could  allow the building, in the next future, of  effective cooperation strategies capable to realize a true alliance of civilizations.

The World Political Forum gathered together in the ancient palaces of the Alhambra outstanding political figures, historians and world renowned experts from the countries of the Mediterranean region, as well as from the USA, Russia and Iran. Among them, the former Prime-Ministers of Spain, France, Malta and Turkey, members of the European Parliament, former Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Education, and Culture from Italy, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Israel, Yugoslavia, scholars and public figures from other countries of the region.

Documents

Agenda part 1

Agenda part 2

Participants list

Biographies

Working paper

Speeches

Final statement

Press release - Spain

Press release - Italy

Press review